I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.

And how will you afford to buy them in the first place?""I shall save up.""But that will take you years and years and years, " said the twins."I've got years and years and years, " said Sophie.

The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.